SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Members Of Our Scientific Committee
Prof. Dr. Rose Leke
Distinguished, multiple international awards winning professor of biomedical science, Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke is a Cameroonian malariologist and Emeritus Professor of Immunology and Parasitology at the University of Yaounde I
Prof. Leke has been a senior member of many organizations in the fields of immunology and malaria. Leke established the Cameroon Coalition Against Malaria. She was president of the Federation of African Immunological Societies between 1997 and 2001, as well as a council member of the International Union of Immunological Societies from 1998 to 2004. In 2002 a presidential decree made Leke the Chair of the Board of Directors of Cameroon’s National Medical Research Institute. Leke won the 2011 Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award for Women, from the African Union, alongside five other recipients. Leke retired from senior university positions in 2013 when she was head of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Biotechnology Centre at the University of Yaoundé I.
In 2015 Leke was elected an honorary international fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and 2Hygiene, and established the Higher Institute for Growth in Health Research for Women Consortium to mentor women scientists in Cameroon. During the 2018 World Health Assembly, Geneva, she was honored as a Heroine of Health by General Electric Healthcare, and in 2019 she was ceremonially named Queen Mother of the Cameroon Medical Community, by the Cameroon Medical Council.[ She is on the World Health Organization Malaria Policy Advisory Committee and the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of Polio Eradication.
Prof. Dr. Therese M.S. Tchombe
Therese Mungah Shalo Tchombe is an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Dean at the Faculty of education, University of Buea. She is in the area of developmental psychology and education with a specialty in applied cognitive psychology. Her areas of research and expertise are Cognitive development, Inclusive education, Learning, Gender, Teacher Education and. currently; she is the UNESCO Chair for Special Needs Education at the University of Buea. She has been a teacher educator, Lecturer, Researcher, and Administrator at all levels of the education system at both national and international levels including being the National Representative for Distance Education for ACCT in Paris and member of the UNESCO Consultative Committee on Education in Africa for two years (1994-1996). She was also a visiting Professor at the University of Osnabrueck and the German Institute for International Research in Education in Frankfurt Germany and did consultancies for UNESCO, UNICEF, Plan International and African Development Bank, DED, World Bank, and British Council.
She was one of evaluator of the Distance Education Training Models for Teacher Education for UNESCO IICBA, FAWE and AGFUND Projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and others; she was also the regional scientific president for ERNWACA (ROCARE), regional representative of ISSBD, IACCP, and president of WACASSIE and Honorary president of CPA Cameroon. She is also a member of the Cameroon Academy of Science. She has published widely with a focus among others on gender and Women; books, book chapters, articles in referred journals, newsletters, edited three books and supervised 20 successful PhD and 20 Master’s theses
Prof. Dr. Yalemtsehay Mekonnen
Professor Yalemtsehay has published over 100 scientific papers in reputable journals in the areas of plants of medicinal and nutritional value in vivo and in vitro physiological tests of useful plant extracts, assessment of health hazards to humans, animals and the environment, advocacy and collaborative work for the promotion of safe and sustainable use of natural resources, to name but few. She has done notable research on medicinal plants especially on Moringa Stenopetala (shiferaw/Alekko Shekatta). This research work has also served as a stepping stone to another mega project which she has been part of and was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Professor Yalemtsehay has received more than ten awards from different institutions like that of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Regional Scientific Awards for Women in 2016, Grant for Research Group Linkage of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation with the University of Hohenheim, Germany in 2014, a Gold Medal award from Addis Ababa University in 2009 during a promotion to a full professorship, and Certificate of recognition by the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), to mention but few.
Prof. Dr. Sammy Beban Chumbow
Distinguished Professor at ICT University USA, Cameroon Campus and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé 1. He has published extensively in Generative Phonology and Language Policy and Planning in a multilingual setting. He is a foundation member of the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), organ of the African Union (AU); former Member of the Linguistic Society of America, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Vice President of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has served as Rector/ Vice-Chancellor (Executive Head) of four Universities and has been Visiting Professor to major universities in Europe, the USA, Canada, Asia, and Africa. Among other distinguished international functions, he served as Member of the Scientific Committee of the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Member of Council of the Association of African Universities (AAU), Member of the Scientific Council of the ‘Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Member of Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
Prof. Dr. Gratien G. Atindogbé
Gratien G. Atindogbé is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Buea, Cameroon. His research interests cover descriptive linguistics, documentation of endangered languages, tonology, intercultural communication, and Cameroon Sign Language (CSL).